Re: gEDA-user: gnetlist didn't catch duplicate hierarchical block

[kai-martin knaak <kmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

gene glick wrote:

> FYI - maybe by design?  But I accidentally named 2 hierarchical blocks 
> with the same refdes's.  gnetlist -g drc2 didn't flag it either as a 
> warning nor an error.  The netlist is worked out correct, nonetheless - 
> but maybe because I don't have any similarly named components within 
> each block.  Just good luck, in my case.
> 
> Is it a bug?  Is it a feature?  Whatever - there it is.

Some would call it "room for improvement". ;-)
I'd say, the whole DRC handling is a major weakness of geda.
It sits there, mostly dysfunctional and waits for refactoring 
by someone motivated contributor.

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